A Crufts trainer who allowed three dogs to bake to death after leaving them in his Land Rover for six hours in searing heat has been spared jail.
Andrew Claridge-Fleming, 57, left four gundogs in the boot of the 4x4 car on a hot summer's day after he was unexpectedly called away to drive his wife to a relative's house.
Two of the animals who perished in the 23C temperatures belonged to clients: Milo, a six-month-old fox red Labrador, and a cocker spaniel called Bodger.
The trainer's own dog, a cockapoo called Rocky, died from heatstroke while in the car which was parked at his farm in New Milton, Hampshire on August 3, 2023.
A cocker spaniel, also named Rocky, another one of Claridge-Fleming's dogs, survived the ordeal after being rushed to the vet.
